Status Updates From A Theory of Dreaming (A Stu...

“It takes strength, to feel so much. To feel so deeply.”

This is taking much longer to get through than I like, but I think its me, not Ms. Reid TT

“There was something comforting about the cold. If one could outlast the nipping bite of the wind, it turned to a glorious sort of numbness.”

😭😭😭

I didn’t think this book even needed a sequel but I was so so wrong

“It was all just too much,” Effy said quietly. “I didn’t think I could bear it for even one moment more.”
Preston nodded. His throat pulsed. Then he said, “If it’s too much, then let me carry it for you. Please.”

oh the 'its rotten work - not to me, not if its you' of it all.

“My love,” he murmured. “Please don’t go.”
Effy’s throat bobbed as she swallowed. In a scratchy, almost inaudible voice, she replied, “All right. I’ll stay.”

what if i kill myself and everyone i know

“If the soul of a nation requires an enemy, then it has no right to exist at all.”

*ahem* israel *ahem*

no me escondo en que he necesitado papel y boli para aclarar todas las ideas que tenía, pero estoy realmente enganchada

this shit is depressing as hell

effy giving me some serious lily calloway depression energy

I've got this sense of building dread... I need some communication between Effy and Presotn stat

I GET DUAL POV THIS TIME??? As a little treat, for me??😛😛

I need both this one and the first book in my library immediately. Those covers?? Breathtaking

girl..

"My mind is never empty of you. Not in waking; not even in dreaming."

“And, at last, the wind succeeded in its cruel task: her ribbon was ripped from her hair, snatched up into the sky, and flung out of her sight, lost within moments to distance.”

I’m just hate finishing this at this point 😑

“Be careful with that, Heloury. You may find yourself worshipping blindly at the altar of reason, just as the pious worship at the altar of their saints.”

“Was it possible for [Antonia's] pain to coexist with the great art it had produced?

Was there any way to protect books, poems, paintings from the ugly, banal reality in which they were composed?”

woof.

CUTIES

they are both GOING THROUGH IT!!! i have hardly ever seen such saddening numbness depicted in this way before, and while it’s heartbreaking, i get it💔

So Malfoy is still malfoy even in a different book...and I still don't really know what's happening.

Omggg Preston my love

I just love dark academia

“Antonia,” Father said at last. Grief strangled his voice. “You look so much like your mother in this light.”
There was a soft pulsing in my chest. “Please,” I said, “will you stay?”

[nervous laughter] haha what the fuck

EFFYYY pleaseeeee

no entraba en mis pensamientos que Preston narrara en este libro pero 🤌🏻

I love everything about this book

Omgg efffyyyy

this book is really good
but it’s the book my gram bought me right before she passed and i am STRUGGLIN